Tristan Nieto...

Originally hailing from London, Tristan Nieto began his career as a hired thug for Thomas Edison.  His first film was made in 1889 using an early prototype of Edison's Kinetoscope, which was made out of cast-iron and weighed roughly two hundred tonnes.  The machine used film made out of interlocking bronze plates and carried roughly two seconds of footage, yet despite these obstacles, Tristan went on to make The Horseless Carriage; a science-fiction film that was met with critical ridicule.  He later travelled to Europe and, in 1893, assisted the Lumière Brothers in constructing their first Cinematograph out of Vacuum Tubes, Antimony and Cocaine.  Unfortunately, this particular construction proved to be unstable, and was later responsible for setting fire to the Lumière factory and killing seven hundred Irish factory workers.

This time, Tristan was forced to flee Europe, and traveled to Manchuria, where he met with the Chinese historian Ah Song Liu.  It was there that Tristan discovered that, contrary to popular opinion, the first motion picture camera had in fact been built by the Chinese in the fourth century B.C. using flint stones and bamboo.  They were both on their way back to the Americas, when their ship was attacked by Mongolian pirates.  Ah Song attacked the pirates and was killed buying Tristan enough time to leap overboard to freedom.  Using his rudimentary understanding of animal languages he was able to communicate his desire to return to America to a passing dolphin.  After twelve days in the ocean, surviving on krill and plankton, he arrived on the shores of Australia.   Concluding that the Dolphin had simply misheard him, Tristan promptly shot and killed the dolphin, which earned him the aboriginal name 'Nullawingi' which, roughly translated, means 'dolphin-killing arsehole'.

After a few weeks, Tristan had settled comfortably in Melbourne, and recommenced his film career, where he has remained to this day.

CONNECTIONS
The Body - Director of Photography
The Morning After - Director of Photography